麻豆约拍

A looks at the playfulness of the Beatles lyrics, often riddled with half hidden meanings.

Plus a look at how disguise offered Paul McCartney a chance to hide in plain sight and his realisation that adopting a persona could lead to a certain kind of freedom.

Craig Brown presents a series of kaleidoscopic glimpses of the Beatles through time.

Drawing on interviews, diaries, anecdotes, memoirs and gossip, he offers an entertaining series of vignettes that capture the mood of an era.

It鈥檚 a journey that takes us from 9th November 1961 when Brian Epstein first heard the four young men in a sweaty basement, via their mop top haircuts, to the jaw-dropping prices paid for the most trivial of memorabilia.

And along the way there is the music, always the exuberant, the playful and ever-changing music.

Read by Mark McGann.

Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters.

A Waters Company production for 麻豆约拍 Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.